Highlighting Highlighter Thoughts

I have some Highlighter work that I keep meaning to finish up (basic support for highlighting ConstantScoreQuerys), and so I have the Highlighter on my mind…

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Investigating OOM and other JVM issues

When working with a large scale Lucene/Solr installation, users sometimes run into memory issues or garbage collection performance problems. Its not a frequent occurrence in my experience, but just like life, it happens. Whenever I run into this sort of thing, I’ve come to rely on a variety of free tools to investigate the problem. There are many other free tools I have tried, but over time, I have found the following most useful:

jmap

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Looking forward to new features in Solr 1.4

Looking at some of the interesting changes coming to Solr 1.4

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